Kai Fu Han

Chapter 434 The rain is coming
"Nan Zhao dispatched nearly [-] troops to Suzhou, Suqian and Shanyang." Liu Xinbaohui reported.

The purpose of doing so is self-evident.

At best, it was to defend Xinghan League or Puppet Qi.At worst, Nan Zhao might be planning to pick the fruit behind his back.

In the minds of some stupid civil servants of Southern Zhao, Liu Xinqi and Zhou Xinyuan accepted the position of magistrate granted by the imperial court of Southern Zhao, and they became the courtiers of Southern Zhao.Now that Liu Xinqi has sent troops to regain the territory of Jingdong East Road and part of Jingdong East Road, Southern Zhao can definitely send troops to take over.

The official of Nanzhao will definitely not be so stupid, but it does not prevent him from being unjust and pretending to be crazy.

This additional [-] troops is a sign.

"Where is the first fleet currently?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"If the journey goes well, we should have passed Jiaozhou Bay and are heading back to Penglai." Liu Xinbao turned over the record book in his hand and gave Liu Xinqi an answer.

"Send an order to Penglai. If the first fleet returns, let them bring all supplies into the Yellow River and help Liu Xin'ang defend the Southern Zhao court." Liu Xinqi arranged.

"Yes!"

Fortunately, the Jin Kingdom is currently unable to go south due to lack of food and grass, otherwise Liu Xinqi would have to fight on three fronts.

Just in case, Liu Xinqi ordered again:

"Send a message to Yu Jin and ask him to lead his troops north to harass the entire Liaodong Peninsula and threaten Liaoyang Mansion."

In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of this group of rebels, Liu Xinqi added: "Let Cui Wu detach two regiments and add some artillery to support Yu Jin."

"Yes!" Liu Xinbao quickly recorded in the record book.

“Where have the Goryeo troops in Jeju gone?”

Liu Xinqi had made arrangements before to dispatch Korean troops from Jeju Island to help.

"There is no reply yet. The First and Second Fleets have recently helped the Third Route Army transport supplies, and they may be a little distracted," Liu Xinbao said.

This is the disadvantage of She Tun Xiang. The population base of Xinghan League is too small.Taking over so much territory at once, there is a shortage of people for everything.

Luo Cheng had previously said that he could only mobilize small and semi-official officials to help, but now that the situation was tense, he could not help it. More than 2000 officials had come to the newly occupied five states, and with the assistance of the army, they accelerated the completion of land reform.

Liu Xinqi is now located in Zichuan, and land reform in Zizhou has begun.

Walking to the map on the side of the big tent, Liu Xinqi looked at the "Old Liujiabao", which was already very close.

In fact, Liujia Fort in Qizhou has been taken back by the Xinghan League, and some landless refugees have been gathered, the original land in the fort has been planted, and the water conservancy has been repaired.

The place is temporarily under the control of Tingting's spies, and it is time to set up the banner of the Han League.

"Hold on, you're already a little stuffed now. Indigestion can cause big troubles. Besides, Jinan is the former capital of the Puppet Qi Dynasty, which is different from other cities." Liu Xinqi said to himself, reminding himself not to be reckless.

On April 22, Jiao Rui arrived in Zichuan, and on the same day he was arranged by Liu Xinqi to cooperate with Sun Li's first regiment to go south to Laiwu.

"After capturing Laiwu, your two armies will stay in Laiwu. I estimate that if the puppet Qi counterattacks, this will be the main attack point of the Yanzhou and Yunzhou armies." Liu Xinqi warned the two men.

"Don't worry, Alliance Leader, we will definitely defend it impregnably." Sun Li assured.

A regiment of thirty large and small artillery was mounted on the city wall. Sun Li did not believe that any army could storm Laiwu.

Unless they have a hundred thousand troops and directly use human sea tactics.

The attack on Laiwu City went smoothly, and the city was captured directly in a night attack on the 24th.

At dawn on the 25th, the commander of the [-]-strong army in the Yanzhou army camp outside the city saw that the situation had taken a turn for the worse. He decisively abandoned Laiwu City and led his troops directly around the city to the southwest and returned to the Yanzhou base camp.

"I thought there was going to be a tough battle." Sun Lizhan stood on the tower, watching the puppet Qi army move toward the southeast, and couldn't help but said to himself.

"Who makes this commander so cowardly?" Jiao Rui cooperated, but did not criticize the enemy coach.In fact, this commander was very pragmatic and did not do stupid things like "knowing that he could not do something". He preserved the main force and returned to the Yanzhou base camp with this effective force.

Works without fail.

……

May 26, Zichuan.

"The defense line has been established. Now we just have to wait. After the summer harvest, we can recruit new soldiers in the five newly occupied states. We can recruit another [-] to [-] new soldiers. We don't have to worry about the counterattack of the Jin Army and the puppet Qi."

"I just don't know if the Jin Army will give us so much time. According to the latest information, both the Jin Army and the Puppet Qi are concentrating their troops." Liu Xinbao said.

"How many Jin troops have gathered in Yanjing?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"According to the report of the spies on Tokyo Road, it exceeds 15." Liu Xinbao replied: "Among them, there are more than 8 Jurchen soldiers as the main force."

The Jurchen soldiers and the servant armies of other ethnic groups were divided half and half.

The combat power of Jin's servant army should not be underestimated, at least it exceeded that of the puppet Qi regular army.

It had been predicted before that after advancing westward, he would definitely face the main force of the Puppet Qi and the Jin Kingdom. When he came to the front, Liu Xinqi was still a little uncomfortable hearing such a gathering of troops.

"Where's Puppet Qi?"

"The Puppet Qi has gathered more than 13 troops from all over the country. Counting the logistics troops and the rebels gathered on the east and west roads of Beijing, I estimate that the total number of troops that will eventually fight us will exceed 25." Liu Xinbaohui reported.

"This..." Liu Xinqi calculated in his mind.

The army of the Jin Kingdom plus the army of the Puppet Qi Dynasty exceeded 40.

However, the Xinghan League's eleven field regiments only had 5000 people, and they were not able to fight them all.

Nearly twenty times the difference in troop strength.

"How should we fight this battle..." Liu Xin was worried.

"Alliance leader, we definitely can't let them gather all the troops before we go on defense." Liu Xinbao said.

"Absolutely not." Liu Xinqi also knew this truth.

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change.

Even if it were 40 pigs, it would take a long time for the Xinghan League to kill them.What's more, most of the 40 people are veterans with complete weapons and armor.

"Then, what's the next step?" Liu Xinbao asked.

"The General Staff has already rehearsed this situation and can only defeat them one by one." Liu Xinqi replied.

Before the war started, the staff ate, drank and slept to rehearse the development of the war. Most of them may have rehearsed it.According to Liu Xinqi's principle of formulating combat plans, "If you don't have long-term worries, you must have immediate worries." The worst possibilities have been considered.

The worst scenario considered by the staff is: Jin Guo, Puppet Qi, and Southern Zhao will attack the Xinghan League with all their forces.

Faced with this extreme situation, the Xinghan League could only give up its westward strategy and devote all its efforts to defending the glue line.

Now it seems that the worst case scenario is not yet reached.

At least Nan Zhao has not taken any drastic actions for the time being except for stationing troops in three places in Henan.

The spies left in Hangzhou by the Xinghan League did not detect any new orders or changes in Hangzhou.

(End of this chapter)